Mushrooms Group
Contact:Dr. Ofer Danai
Tel: 972-524-744802 ofer@migal.org.il
Agenda
- Improving management practice and production stability in champignons mushrooms;
- Developing new techniques for substrate production for mushrooms;
- Introducing new mushroom varieties (foliota, miitake, shiitake);
- Testing new substrates for mushrooms;
- Testing new mushrooms production techniques.
- Introducing Irish system of mushrooms cultivation.
Ongoing R&D Projects
- Technologies for the adaptation of quality edible mushrooms by novel Irish technique.
- Technologies for the cultivation of quality truffles.
- Know how for the development of chemical, physical and biological indicators for the quality of mushroom compost in Israel, in various stages of production.
- Development of techniques for cultivation of new mushrooms.
- Know how for examination of cultivation and marketing of Poliota and Mitaki mushrooms.
- Know how for examination of use of insect-parasitic nematodes against flies in edible mushrooms.
- Technologies for improving productivity and quality in edible mushrooms by use of germinated compost.